APS — Next year will be normal
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Anonymous
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DH is skeptical but I’m telling him when DD enters WL next year, things will be normal. No more masks or closures. Teachers should be stable because job market is slowing so more will stay/return.
Added bonus, WL has a huge new capacity so plenty of elbow room! We should have made up most folks to the right level for a year off (kids miss bouts of school all the time, my mom had scarlet fever and missed half a year and was valedictorian). Any other arguments I can show him to stop grousing about APS? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I think you’re overly optimistic about staffing. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Huh? There are no closures now and masks are not required. Why would it be any different in the fall? |
Anonymous
+1. I don’t understand the closures and masks comments. None of that is happening now and certainly won’t be in the fall. |
Anonymous
| Closures and mask mandates are not legal in VA. So no, they won’t happen next year. |
Anonymous
| I do agree that the whole school year will feel normal (a lot of things are not in place now, true, but this year as a whole was not normal). Our school is already planning the beginning of the year social and other extracurricular activities that didn’t happen last fall. I do think staffing issues are likely to be unresolved next year. |
Anonymous
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That staffing issue isn’t going away,
How is next year going to be normal with an unusually large number of APS teachers leaving and not enough teachers to take their places? I also don’t know how many additional staff will be needed for the new XL W-L, but I’d be surprised if they were 100% staffed by August. |
Anonymous
XL W-L! I may have started that meme, happy to see it in the wild! |
Anonymous
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Staffing challenges are not a unique issue to W-L or public schools or private schools or even the teaching profession. The labor market is in a lot of flux and that will likely continue.
The rest of it is a non-issue. Everyone loves to dump on APS but these are larger issues affecting all employers. |
Anonymous
Tell him to get a friggin life outside of obsessing over his kids' schools. |
Anonymous
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It’s always helpful to first validate concerns and see if you can find some common ground. Just telling him he’s wrong wrong wrong isn’t going to help.
The way I think about APS is that it’s “good enough.” For my kids anyway. Most kids who go there and graduate from there thrive even though it’s not perfect. Maybe an approach like that will be helpful. And if not, he’ll get over it. |
Anonymous
| Unless he’s talking about pulling your kid out of APS, let him be miserable if he’s so hellbent on it. If he wants to grouse, he can talk to a wall because you don’t owe him an audience for constant, pointless complaints. |
Anonymous
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We haven't had a single closure this school year, so I don't understand that complaint.
They've pretty much stopped all covid mitigation, so what is his problem exactly? Staffing will continue to be an issue while teachers are paid so poorly and stretched so thin. The shooting this week will not help over all morale. |